EVENT TYPE ABILITY CAST START

- Update mana/stamina - Calculate *combat* attack/miss (only for hit based talents like Deadly Strike) - Calculate resistance check/failure for non-AOE abilities (if valid) - Calculate *combat* damage (only for hit based talents like Deadly Strike) Most of the above information is then passed on to the engine who need to decide what animations to play (or not to play). The engine then returns most of this information along with the CAST_IMPACT event back to this script (see below)

• Sent When: whenever any ability (spell, talent) is used
• Sent From: engine
• Sent To:

Parameters:

• Object 1 - the item used to cast the ability (optional)
• Object 2 - the object that the ability was targeted

note: in case of a projectile impact, there might be more than one target (object 2+...) this allows doing things like lightning bolts going through targets, but this is not currently made use of in Dragon Age.